A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 28

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

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SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!

Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience.

And now, without further ado, we give you…

TODAY’S PUZZLE:

If you asked for “two cents plain” during the Great Depression, you’d be handed a drink invented by whom?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):

Search [escape black hole miles per second] to find that you’d need to exceed the speed of light: 186,282 miles per second. That is, so far as current physics understands the universe, an impossibility.

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